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Heritage Languages: In the 'Wild' and in the Classroom [PDF]
, 2009 Heritage speakers are people raised in a home where one language is spoken who subsequently switch to another dominant language. The version of the home language that they have not completely acquired – heritage language – has only recently been given ...
Kagan, Olga, Polinsky, Maria
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The Comprehension of Tense–Aspect Morphology by Spanish Heritage Speakers in the United Kingdom
Languages, 2020 Whilst heritage Spanish has been widely examined in the USA, less is known about the acquisition of Spanish in other English-dominant contexts such as the UK, and studies rarely assess the baseline grammar that heritage speakers are exposed to directly ...
James Corbet, Laura Domínguez
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Ultimate attainment in the use of collocations among heritage speakers of Turkish in Germany and Turkish–German returnees [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper we show that heritage speakers and returnees are fundamentally different from the majority of adult second language learners with respect to their use of collocations (Laufer & Waldman, 2011).
Aarssen +33 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Second language learners perform worse than native speakers under adverse listening conditions, such as speech in noise. No data are available on heritage language speakers’ (early naturalistic interrupted learners’) ability to perceive speech in noise ...
Kira eGor
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Auditory Processing of Gender Agreement across Relative Clauses by Spanish Heritage Speakers
Languages, 2020 Processing research on Spanish gender agreement has focused on L2 learners’ and—to a lesser extent—heritage speakers’ sensitivity to gender agreement violations.
Daniel Vergara, Gilda Socarrás
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Production of phonetic and phonological contrast by heritage speakers of Mandarin [PDF]
, 2011 This study tested the hypothesis that heritage speakers of a minority language, due to their childhood experience with two languages, would outperform late learners in producing contrast: language-internal phonological contrast, as well as cross ...
Chang, C. B. +3 more
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Interdental Fricative Production in Dutch Heritage Language Speakers Living in Canada
Ilha do Desterro, 2017 This study investigates the production of / ? / and / ð / by three groups of English speakers in the community of Norwich, Ontario, Canada. English monolinguals, Heritage Dutch speakers, and late-learning Dutch L1 English speakers / ?
Sarah Cornwell, Yasaman Rafat
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Languages, 2019 Many previous studies have found that adult heritage speakers exhibit significant variability in their production and comprehension of mood morphology in Spanish.
David Giancaspro
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Morphological bottleneck: the case of Russian heritage speakers [PDF]
, 2018 The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008) assumes functional morphology to be a particular challenge in second language (L2) acquisition whereas acquisition of syntax and semantics to be unproblematic.
Mikhaylova, Anna
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Verbal working memory assessment in Russian-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 In Brazil, the learning of a second language (L2) by native Brazilian Portuguese speakers has been extensively explored, but studies on language processing and language interaction among bilinguals are quite recent.
Aleksandra S. Skorobogatova +4 more
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